Tommy Espinoza

And there's a certain form that within the post office, the managers need to fill out. I you know, all these forms have some numbers associated with them, that they just refuse to fill out. And there's no recourse. There's no path for us to take to make them hurry or make them get this individual the money that they're owed.

And some people, this doesn't ruin their lives and they've already paid off their house or whatever. But I imagine for many, many working Americans, that's... That's their livelihood immediately down the drain.

And some people, this doesn't ruin their lives and they've already paid off their house or whatever. But I imagine for many, many working Americans, that's... That's their livelihood immediately down the drain.

And some people, this doesn't ruin their lives and they've already paid off their house or whatever. But I imagine for many, many working Americans, that's... That's their livelihood immediately down the drain.

Right. So in terms of grievances within the union and our negotiation, a lot of it does have to do with the aforementioned workers' compensation. Employees are just simply not getting paid. I think the biggest problem with the union and the grievance procedure today is that management has figured out this really effective strategy.

Right. So in terms of grievances within the union and our negotiation, a lot of it does have to do with the aforementioned workers' compensation. Employees are just simply not getting paid. I think the biggest problem with the union and the grievance procedure today is that management has figured out this really effective strategy.

Right. So in terms of grievances within the union and our negotiation, a lot of it does have to do with the aforementioned workers' compensation. Employees are just simply not getting paid. I think the biggest problem with the union and the grievance procedure today is that management has figured out this really effective strategy.

If they don't settle on the lower levels and it gets pushed up to arbitration, then we have a massive backlog of cases happening. a pending arbitration, which could be scheduled years out.

If they don't settle on the lower levels and it gets pushed up to arbitration, then we have a massive backlog of cases happening. a pending arbitration, which could be scheduled years out.

If they don't settle on the lower levels and it gets pushed up to arbitration, then we have a massive backlog of cases happening. a pending arbitration, which could be scheduled years out.

I think if you do the math for our current rate of handling these cases and how many cases we have, it'll take around 15 years to get through them all.

I think if you do the math for our current rate of handling these cases and how many cases we have, it'll take around 15 years to get through them all.

I think if you do the math for our current rate of handling these cases and how many cases we have, it'll take around 15 years to get through them all.

Yeah, yeah. That's like when you go to a restaurant and there's that little stanchion out there that says it's a five-hour wait from this point. That's the point that we're at. Anything beyond today will be further along. Jesus Christ. And so I think that is just a major problem for us, clearly. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. That's like when you go to a restaurant and there's that little stanchion out there that says it's a five-hour wait from this point. That's the point that we're at. Anything beyond today will be further along. Jesus Christ. And so I think that is just a major problem for us, clearly. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. That's like when you go to a restaurant and there's that little stanchion out there that says it's a five-hour wait from this point. That's the point that we're at. Anything beyond today will be further along. Jesus Christ. And so I think that is just a major problem for us, clearly. Yeah.

Management just not complying with any of this, and it makes it so that our employees have to wait. Something I do want to talk about that's outside of the grievance procedure, if we can, is just what's going on with the post office and the postmaster general.

Management just not complying with any of this, and it makes it so that our employees have to wait. Something I do want to talk about that's outside of the grievance procedure, if we can, is just what's going on with the post office and the postmaster general.

Management just not complying with any of this, and it makes it so that our employees have to wait. Something I do want to talk about that's outside of the grievance procedure, if we can, is just what's going on with the post office and the postmaster general.

All right, so... I want to go at this from the customer perspective first, because I think that's the best way to relate to people. I think by and large, people are losing faith in the post office. Either you have no idea what's going on or you don't care. And that's fine. I'd say before I joined, I didn't think of them at all.